History of King's Highway 70A:
King's Highway 70A was a short cut-off highway which connected Highway 70 south of Finland to the original Highway 71 (now Highway 11) at Barwick in the
District of Rainy River. Highway 70A was first assumed as a King's Highway on September 29, 1937. The intention of Highway 70A was to provide a shorter
route for highway traffic traveling between Kenora and Rainy River, by bypassing the circuitous southern leg of Highway 70 via Off Lake Corners. In 1952,
Highway 70 was relocated from Finland southerly to Highway 71, in order to eliminate the awkward jog in the existing highway route. The new bypass also
eliminated the need for Highway 70A, because the new relocated Highway 70 made the distance between Kenora and Rainy River more or less equal to the
distance provided by the 23 km route of Highway 70A. On February 8, 1954, Highway 70A was formally decommissioned. In later years, the east-west section of
the defunct Highway 70A between Finland and Black Hawk was incorporated into the route of Secondary Highway 600. The north-south section of Old
Highway 70A is now just a township road, known as the Barwick-Black Hawk Road.
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